Veneta, OR 97487 Frost Dates
Veneta, OR: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/18, about 233 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 189 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Veneta, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Veneta's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Veneta's last frost
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Veneta against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 189 frost-free days, Veneta places 21,540 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OR, it ranks 288 of 463.
Learn more
Before leaning on 97487's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Veneta can differ from the 97487 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Veneta's frost date answer different questions.